Baltic Skies
sailing the seas without a telescope!
.. sunsets, Venus, waning moon, one-day moon, sun-halo, midnight sun ... and clouds!
Kiel Canal
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| Sun setting over Germany - Venus just about visible over the bridge |
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| Skies a little darker now - Venus clearer |
22 day moon in the sunlight over Denmark
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| The pale 22-day moon was just visible over Copenhagen airport |
Gulf of Finland and a midnight sun!
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| Sneaked out of a concert in the evening - and found we still had the sunset!!! |
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| Eleven o'clock local time but the clocks were due to put forward an hour .... |
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| Ships in the sunset ... |
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Midnight now with the clocks forward! |
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| Finland on the horizon, sun nearly down ... |
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| Still lighting the sky well past midnight ... |
Sun haloes and Russian sunsets
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| An ice halo round the sun in St Petersburg |
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| It was almost full - rainbow just fading at the bottom |
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| Just further west from the sun halo - I'd glimpsed a thin pale crescent earlier but lost it!! |
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| Waiting for the sun to set behind the Church of the Assumption in St Petersburg - but the clouds raced in ... |
Heading for Estonia
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| Out of Russia and the River Neva, heading for Estonia - clouds thickening ... |
Clouds over Sweden
| Clouds gather over Swedish islands ... |
Blue skies for Bornholm
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| Bright skies over Danish island of Bornholm |
Blue skies, white clouds and fireworks over Germany
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| Blue sky and white clouds over Berlin |
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| Fireworks over Warnemunde! |
Rain over Kiel Canal!
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| What sky? Pouring rain over Kiel ... |
The one day moon over the North Sea begins the next lunation!
| Went out to watch the sun setting over North Sea |
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| Found Venus and a one day crescent! |
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| One day moon |
Clouds over Flanders fields
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| Unlikely skies for a 2 day moon later ... |
Rain clouds over the Channel
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| Ah well! |
Harwich - and Grey skies again
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| Grey day! Not much chance for a 3-day crescent ... |